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NEW YORK TIMES: Vox Media's Melissa Bell Fills Long-Vacant Publisher’s Job

The company, with a stable of sites including Vox, the Verge, Recode and SB Nation, named Melissa Bell, its vice president for growth, as its publisher.

NIEMAN LAB: At Vox Media’s hackathon, devs focus on the distributed web, brand identity, and user accessibility

"The general question we presented everyone with was: What does it look like to build our brands and do storytelling on all of these new places?"

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POYNTER: Curbed is launching a Facebook Live team

Curbed has so far experimented with live videos mainly in New York — a pedicab ride around Central Park, a stroll on the High Line, or the evening of Manhattanhenge.

BLOOMBERG: SB Nation Expands Into Radio Programming With Gow Media Accord

The new SB Nation Radio will create audio programming that will be available at SBNation.com and go out to 500 terrestrial and satellite stations affiliated with Gow.

DIGIDAY: How do publishers wring new value from old content? Vox.com’s Matthew Yglesias explains.

"The main thing is that if we have good stories that become relevant again, we should use them again," Matthew Yglesias, Vox.com’s executive editor.

MSNBC: Hillary Clinton talks poll numbers with Vox.com

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton discusses the science of low poll number in an interview with Vox.com's Ezra Klein.

USA and The Verge Team Up for a Weekly Live Digital Mr. Robot Aftershow

The aftershow will be produced by The Verge and Vox Entertainment, filmed at the company's New York studio and hosted by a trio of Verge staffers: Nilay Patel, Emily Yoshida and Russell Brandom.

CNBC: Will Snapchat keep cool factor?

Kwame Opam, The Verge news editor, discusses "what's cool" among teens, and whether old people getting on Snapchat will ruin the app's popularity.

WWD: Racked expands team under new editor

Racked, the fashion site owned by Vox Media, is building out its editorial team under new editor in chief Britt Aboutaleb, who joined in January.

VARIETY: NBCU, Vox Media join to sell upscale consumers to advertisers

NBCUniversal and Vox Media say they are putting together an advertising package that will give potential sponsors access to a higher-quality audience that might offset some of those distractions.

BLOOMBERG: NBCU, Vox Media tell advertisers real viewers will see their web ads

In their first partnership since NBCUniversal invested $200 million in Vox Media last year, the two companies said Monday they’ll jointly sell ads across their TV and digital properties.

ADWEEK: NBCUniversal and Vox Media team up to sell premium digital advertising

The two companies are teaming up to sell premium advertising across all of their combined digital properties with a new inventory tool called Concert.

AD AGE: NBCU and Vox Media create 'Concert'

NBC Universal and Vox Media will work together to sell digital ad inventory across their portfolio of brands, the first major collaboration between the two since NBCU made a big investment in Vox last year.

POYNTER: How The Verge uses Facebook Live to reach broader audiences

The Verge has been hosting two main types of streams: live reports from major events like product releases and in-office question-and-answer sessions to demo products and discuss important issues, said Helen Havlak, engagement editor at The Verge.

DIGIDAY: Vox Media moves into experiential marketing

Vox Media hired Vanessa Fontanez as its first executive director of experiential marketing to extend its eight brands to events.

MSNBC: Vox.com's Liz Plank speaks with MSNBC’s Tamron Hall

Senior Correspondent for Vox, Liz Plank, joins MSNBC’s Tamron Hall to discuss how Donald Trump is continuing to dispute the allegations that his Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed the ex-Breitbart reporter, Michelle Fields.

MARKETING LAND: Vox Media discusses the third-party measurement question

Vox Media's Jonathan Hunt and Mike Hadgis discuss measuring off-platform audiences and the third-party measurement model.

AD AGE: Vox Media on Marketing Their Publishing Platform to Others

Many people in digital media consider Vox's Chorus platform its "secret sauce," differentiating it from rivals.

SILICON VALLEY: Re/code's Kara Swisher says 'It’s Time for Silicon Valley to Get Serious'

The journalist says Silicon Valley's brightest need to stop chasing small ideas and start tackling big ones.

ONA-POYNTER: Two from Vox Media Named to the Digital Women’s Leadership Academy 2016

Meet the 2016 class of the ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media.

CNBC: The Verge's Nilay Patel, Re/code's Edmund Lee on Privacy vs. Security

Discussing Apple's fight with the FBI before they testifies to Congress with Nilay Patel, Editor-in-Chief for The Verge, and Edmund Lee, Managing Editor at Re/code.

POLITICO: Vox.com Seeks to Make a Mark on the 2016 Campaign

New media players seek to make their mark on the 2016 campaign

HBO: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Cites Exclusive Vox.com Poll

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Vox Media Hires Choire Sicha to Oversee Partnership Platforms

Vox Media has long counted its own content platform as a key to its success. But now it says the future lies in platforms run by others, so it’s bringing in a digital media stalwart to help strengthen those ties.

MSNBC: 30 Seconds on the Verge: Andrew Hawkins

DIGIDAY: Lockhart Steele Discusses Vox Media's "Individual Media Brand" Model

DIGIDAY: Vox Media nominated for 4 Digiday Publishing Awards

FORTUNE: Intel, Vox Media, and Lady Gaga Launch Hack Harassment

The partnership may sounds strange at first, but not when you consider the cause: online harassment.

WSJ: NBCU and Vox Media will start selling ads on each other’s sites

Starting this week, NBCU will run Vox’ Medias custom ad products on its digital properties, and both companies’ sales teams will start selling packages to marketers that include these ads.

AD AGE: President Marty Moe Discusses Vox Media's Plans for TV

"The fact is that TV is a hard business," said Marty Moe, president of Vox Media. "It's not a layup for anybody, and in particular, for digital-native companies that have never done TV before." Vox also wants to be on TV, but in the right way, and...

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Elizabeth Plank Joins Vox.com for Election Coverage

Vox.com is boosting its election coverage with the addition of senior producer and video correspondent Elizabeth Plank.

NEW YORK TIMES: Panorama Festival Announced, in Partnership with The Verge, Eater

Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar and LCD Soundsystem will be the headliners for the first Panorama music festival at Randalls Island, from July 22 through July 24.

CNN MONEY: Re/code Welcomes New Editor in Chief, Dan Frommer

NEW YORK TIMES: Google Speeds Up Mobile Delivery of News Articles, Melissa Bell Weighs In